Tithes Monastery abbot Bishop Clement assured the faithful that the prayer life in the monastery will not stop. He also emphasized that they managed to save the monastery’s wonderworking icon of the Theotokos before the church was destroyed.
The Monastery of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk in Waymart, Pennsylvania, the oldest Orthodox monastery in America, founded by the future Patriarch St. Tikhon of Moscow in 1905, is in need of urgent help.
Priest Jorge Suez
I began to serve in Spanish in order to make our church and services more open to people around us. For Chileans, including descendants of emigrants, church services have become clearer; in addition, we have begun pastoral work with people of all ages, holding meetings, reading the Bible, and answering questions.
The ancient cathedral was blown up by the godless authorities in 1936, but in 2006, the new church, belonging to the Tithes Monastery, was built by Kiev residents with the blessing of then-primate Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev and All Ukraine.
This year marks the 950th anniversary of the repose of the founder of cenobitic monasticism in ancient Rus’ and abbot of the Kiev Caves from 1062 to 1074.